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“Game over” for the Amazon forest and global climate if Trump wins? (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 11 Jul 2024
Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

Shrimp farms threaten Mexico’s mangroves and the jaguars that inhabit them

Sarah Brown 11 Jul 2024

After historic 2023 drought, Amazon communities brace for more in Brazil

Amanda Magnani 10 Jul 2024

In Peru, conservationists and archaeologists unite to save a threatened gecko

James Hall 10 Jul 2024
Guasimas Bay has been contaminated by agrochemicals and waste that is released from shrimp farms not far from the coast.

As drought parches Mexico, a Yaqui water defender fights for a sacred river

Aimee Gabay 9 Jul 2024

Brasil, Venezuela and Peru: the geography of industrial metals

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Jul 2024

Climate surprises: Amazonia and the lessons of Brazil’s catastrophic flood in Rio Grande do Sul (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Rosimeire Araújo Silva 4 Jul 2024

Brazil’s new pro-agribusiness pesticide law threatens Amazon biodiversity

André Schröder 3 Jul 2024

Across Mexico, World Cup infrastructure threatens biodiversity and communities

Alice Pistolesi, Monica Pelliccia 2 Jul 2024
A peyote (Lophophora williamsii).

The Wixárika community’s thirteen-year legal battle to stop mining in their sacred territory

Astrid Arellano 2 Jul 2024

Colombian victims win historic lawsuit over banana giant Chiquita

Aimee Gabay 1 Jul 2024

Study says 40% of Amazon region is potentially conserved — more than officially recorded

Liz Kimbrough 1 Jul 2024
Two Yanomami men carrying wood in the Amazon forest.

Organized crime brings renewed threats to Yanomami in Brazil

Aimee Gabay 1 Jul 2024
An Amazon kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona)

‘It is indeed our problem’: Interview with Mário Soares on Brazil’s mangroves

Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 1 Jul 2024

Sweeping reform package threatens environmental protections in Argentina, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jun 2024

‘Miracle’ in miniature as rare new plant defies deforestation in Ecuador

Liz Kimbrough 28 Jun 2024
Since the beginning of the operation, government environmental agents have been destroying the logistical support of illegal mining, such as an airplane, a helicopter and a tractor, and have seized weapons and boats. Image courtesy of IBAMA by Ricardo Campos.

Environmental agents intensify strike amid record fires in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Jun 2024

Mineral hotspots in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Jun 2024
Fires are tearing through the Pantanal, their spread quickened by accumulated biomass. Credit: Gustavo Figueirôa/SOS Pantanal.

Pantanal’s intense blazes stoke fears of another destructive fire season

Constance Malleret 27 Jun 2024

Fire bans not effective as the Amazon and Pantanal burn, study says

Fernanda Wenzel 27 Jun 2024

Living under the apartheid of Brazil’s soybean capital

Luiz Felipe Silva 26 Jun 2024

French court greenlights lawsuit against EDF over wind farm in Mexico

Chris Arsenault, Philippe Le Billon 26 Jun 2024

Reintroduction project brings golden parakeets back to the skies of Brazil’s Belém

Sarah Brown 26 Jun 2024

Venezuela: Water crisis looms as deforestation spreads in Yacambú National Park

Maxwell Radwin 25 Jun 2024

Warao refugees in the Brazilian Amazon face famine, disease & despair

Nicola Zolin (photos), Paloma de Dinechin 25 Jun 2024

As wind, solar farms expand in Brazil, space for traditional communities shrinks

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Jun 2024

Wai Wai people’s push for direct access to Brazil nut market

Avener Prado, Rodrigo Pedroso, Sam Cowie 24 Jun 2024

Indigenous Wai Wai seek markets for Brazil nuts without middlemen

Rodrigo Pedroso, Sam Cowie, Avener Prado 24 Jun 2024

U.K. court to hear lawsuit for victims of Brazilian dam disaster

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jun 2024

The most prominent mining companies in the Pan Amazon – a review

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Jun 2024
A coffee farmer in Colombia.

‘Water grabs’ pose big threat to farmers amid water crises

Aimee Gabay 21 Jun 2024

How agroecological cacao can save an endangered lion tamarin in southern Bahia

Elizabeth Oliveira 21 Jun 2024

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